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After 15 years of playing in the WNBA, Seimone Augustus announced her retirement prior to the beginning of the 2021 WNBA season. She now is a member of the Sparks coaching staff.
Copy shortlink: SAN ANTONIO — Paige Bueckers swept all the national player of the year awards for which she was eligible, as she was announced the first freshman to win the Wooden Award for the country's most outstanding player Monday evening. Bueckers previously won the USBWA's Ann Meyers Drysdale Award, the Naismith Trophy and the AP national player of the year. She was also the first freshman to take home those honors. Freshmen are not eligible for the Wade Trophy, which was awarded to Baylor junior NaLyssa Smith. Three other Huskies have won the Wooden Award a to...
Photo by Cody Glenn/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images In each WNBA Draft, you have a handful of players who are — perhaps unfairly — labeled as “projects.” Their physical gifts are not in question and they’ve dominated every previous level of basketball, yet they’re criticized for lacking a certain skill or ability that seems to come naturally to other prospects. UCLA’s Michaela Onyenwere — a 6-foot forward from Aurora, Colo. — could be classified as such a player. As athletic as they come, Onyenwere did not begin playing basketball until her freshman year of high school, so ...
Photo by Benjamin Solomon /Getty Images The Rutgers Scarlet Knights have sent their fair share of players to the WNBA during the tenure of legendary head coach C. Vivian Stringer. Names like Cappie Pondexter, Sue Wicks and Tammy Sutton-Brown sit alongside Stringer’s in the hall of women’s basketball royalty, while up-and-coming players such as Betnijah Laney and Kahleah Copper currently maintain the program’s pipeline. Next in line for Rutgers is Arella Guirantes, a 5-foot-11 wing from Bellport, NY. Guirantes — who chose not to enter the 2020 WNBA Draft and instead returned to Rutgers...